Law but where?

[Water]

Its like taking the entrance exam for Melbourne High School/Macrobs except 100000x more stressful.

[Menang]

Hmm.. JD sounds very, very risky! Besides if you want to do graduate law, I think Monash has a Master of Laws which I'd imagine would be internationally-recognised?

I wish UoM didn't have that stupid Melbourne Model, I liked the way things used to be with the BComm/LLB degrees there.. these were definitely internationally-recognised I think, I had a tutor in grade 6 that finished this degree and is now lawyering in London and Hong Kong....

Yeah. In my honest, personal opinion, I think the whole internationally recognised, on par with the US and Europe thing is just suger-coating the fact that the Melbourne Model basically forces people to pay more for the same degrees.

[werdna]

I personally wouldn't rule out ANU Law.. I was in Canberra for a week last week and I actually don't mind it! ANU looks massive... it's right in the city centre so yeah, pretty good!

Yeah. In my honest, personal opinion, I think the whole internationally recognised, on par with the US and Europe thing is just suger-coating the fact that the Melbourne Model basically forces people to pay more for the same degrees.

Looks like I'll be seeing you at Monash Menang!

[Menang]

Its like taking the entrance exam for Melbourne High School/Macrobs except 100000x more stressful.

....eh
depends.
Statistically I think you have a higher chance of getting into the JD than Melbourne High or MacRob. Mainly because a lot of people who try are quite intelligent to begin with, and as of last year more than 1 in 3 got in.

The MHS/MGHS exams are sat by a couple of thousand students and only ~330 get in to Melbourne High and ~220 for MacRob.

However, which High School you go to doesn't matter as much as whether you get a law degree after 3 yeas of potentially useless undergrad, so in that sense it is definitely more stressful.

[Menang]

I personally wouldn't rule out ANU Law.. I was in Canberra for a week last week and I actually don't mind it! ANU looks massive... it's right in the city centre so yeah, pretty good!

Yeah. In my honest, personal opinion, I think the whole internationally recognised, on par with the US and Europe thing is just suger-coating the fact that the Melbourne Model basically forces people to pay more for the same degrees.

Looks like I'll be seeing you at Monash Menang!

YEAHHHHH.

Monash LLB 2012!

[eeps]

According to a lady from the Law faculty at the University of Melbourne that I heard today at an information day, she said out of roughly 600 students who applied for JD last year, only 250 were accepted. Chances aren't that great; the safer option would be to do an undergraduate law degree at another university. For those interested, an ATAR score of 99.0+ guarantees a full-fee place for JD, though you have to maintain a 75% weighted average in your undergraduate degree. If you get an ATAR score of 99.90 or better, it guarantees a CSP place for JD, though I still think you need to maintain a 75% weighted average in the undergraduate degree.

EPL! You were at Access All Areas? I was too! Listening to the same lady!

Yeh, I was there. I think I sat in the row in front of you. I was the (only) Asian guy there!

How do you know which row I was sitting in! 0_0

Haha, now I'm trying to remember what you looked like. Should have paid more attention to the audience!

I guessed? I'm fairly sure you were sitting behind me. I do remember what you looked like since I was like the first one in the theatre; I saw everyone come in, including yourself. Yeh, clearly you should have paid more attention to the audience.

[Menang]

According to a lady from the Law faculty at the University of Melbourne that I heard today at an information day, she said out of roughly 600 students who applied for JD last year, only 250 were accepted. Chances aren't that great; the safer option would be to do an undergraduate law degree at another university. For those interested, an ATAR score of 99.0+ guarantees a full-fee place for JD, though you have to maintain a 75% weighted average in your undergraduate degree. If you get an ATAR score of 99.90 or better, it guarantees a CSP place for JD, though I still think you need to maintain a 75% weighted average in the undergraduate degree.

EPL! You were at Access All Areas? I was too! Listening to the same lady!

Yeh, I was there. I think I sat in the row in front of you. I was the (only) Asian guy there!

How do you know which row I was sitting in! 0_0

Haha, now I'm trying to remember what you looked like. Should have paid more attention to the audience!

I guessed? I'm fairly sure you were sitting behind me. I do remember what you looked like since I was like the first one in the theatre; I saw everyone come in, including yourself. Yeh, clearly you should have paid more attention to the audience.

Oh dear.
Now I'm annoyed at myself for not paying attention.
Just to be sure, though.
I was the one who asked the question about being able to fall back on the full-fee guarantee, yeah?

[eeps]

Oh dear.
Now I'm annoyed at myself for not paying attention.
Just to be sure, though.
I was the one who asked the question about being able to fall back on the full-fee guarantee, yeah?

If I think I know what you looked like, and if my memory serves me correctly, I'll say no? You didn't ask a question, neither did I. Would I be right in saying? If I'm wrong, I blame the fact that I wasn't paying attention when people were asking questions.

EDIT: Were you sitting by yourself?

[Menang]

Oh dear.
Now I'm annoyed at myself for not paying attention.
Just to be sure, though.
I was the one who asked the question about being able to fall back on the full-fee guarantee, yeah?

If I think I know what you looked like, and if my memory serves me correctly, I'll say no? You didn't ask a question, neither did I. Would I be right in saying? If I'm wrong, I blame the fact that I wasn't paying attention when people were asking questions.

Nope, I asked a question, at the end. Just before we were finishing up.

[Russ]

I had to direct so many lost families and kids to that damn AAA thing *glare*

I would have thought that a double degree was worse for exploring your options than doing two sequential degrees but meh. Anyway, here's an article you might be interested in, it was published in the UoM student magazine.

http://union.unimelb.edu.au/farrago/uni-news/the-jd-all-the-kids-are-doing-it

[Liuy]

What about ANU V. Monash?
based purely on the degree.

[LOVEPHYSICS]

ANU hands down. I wouldn't be surprised if ANU's law is just as good as Melbourne's, if not better. ANU has a great emphasis on international and constitutional law. Its law course is also famous for being very academically vigorous.

[TonyEcon]

I don't understand why people keep referencing the 'internationally recognised component'. This is law...the laws of every country are different, so really, unless you study international law, it doesn't matter at all.

[weasleyisourking]

I'm going to ANU! Can't wait! I was attracted to the international component of its subjects that the other courses didn't emphasise as much ... perfect complement to my ambitions in International Relations. But if it was out of Melb/Mon I'd go for Monash if your ATAR wasn't 99.0 + ... its too risky otherwise IMO.